Tumor scatter after neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer: Are we dealing with an invisible margin?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1206-1212

  Hayden, Dana M ^a   Jakate, Shriram ^a   Pinzon, Maria C Mora ^a   Giusto, Deborah ^b   Francescatti, Amanda B ^a   Brand, Marc I ^a   Saclarides, Theodore J ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 4Path Pathology Services   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal margin; Neoadjuvant therapy; Radiation; Rectal cancer; Residual ulcer; Tumor scatter

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MUCIN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGEON; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872226206     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e318269fdb3     Document Type: Review

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